Morningstar has been forward thinking in their use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance various processes. In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Shariq Ahmad, Head of Technology for Morningstar’s Data Collection group. He shares with us how Morning is automating data collection, lessons learned along the way, as well as insights on responsible AI. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Automating Data Collection: Interview with Shariq Ahmad, Head of Technology fo...
Sep 30, 2020•24 min•Season 3Ep. 163
Voice assistants are increasingly becoming a part of our everyday lives. It should come as no surprise then that one of the visions for voice assistants is to bring voice applications to vehicles. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Shyamala Prayaga, Autonomous Digital Assistant Vision Lead at Ford. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Humanizing Privacy and Ethics: Interview with Shyamala Prayaga, Autonomous Digital Assistant Vision Lead at For...
Sep 23, 2020•22 min•Season 3Ep. 162
It’s so surprise that the Federal Government is adopting AI. However it’s often less talked about how AI is being adopted at the state and local level. In the episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Dan Hoffman, Assistant City Manager for the City of Gainesville. He shares will us how automation, advanced data analytics, and AI play an increasing role in local government, some unique challenges local governments face with implementing AI solutions and attracting AI talent, and more. Continu...
Sep 16, 2020•23 min•Season 3Ep. 161
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) has a long history with AI. As the first Director of the Artificial Intelligence & Technology Office (AITO) within the DOE, Cherly has been helping to develop, deliver and manage AI technologies in support of DOE with over 600 AI projects currently in place. In this podcast we explore how AI is impacting the DOE, their perspective on ethics and responsible use of AI, how the DOE is engaging industry and private sector in their AI efforts, and more. Co...
Sep 09, 2020•20 min•Season 3Ep. 160
For many years banks have been at the forefront of using technology to help with many operations and processes. In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Jad Abou Maarouf who is Chief Data Officer at a regional mid-atlantic bank. He shares with us how banks are thinking about using automation and AI and more. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: The Human Side of Data for AI, interview with Jad Abou Maarouf, Chief Data Officer at Cognilytica....
Sep 01, 2020•28 min•Season 3Ep. 158
American Express has been very forward thinking with their use of AI, in particular around pattern and fraud detection. In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Rajat Jain who is Vice President and Global Head for Identity and Authentication Strategy at American Express. He shares with us how machine learning can be applied successfully to detect and catch fraud, how AI and machine learning are being used for the overall customer experience at American Express, and some surprising in...
Aug 31, 2020•19 min•Season 3Ep. 159
For many years banks have been at the forefront of using technology to help with many operations and processes. In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Jad Abou Maarouf who is Chief Data Officer at a regional mid-atlantic bank. He shares with us how banks are thinking about using automation and AI and more. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: The Human Side of Data for AI, interview with Jad Abou Maarouf, Chief Data Officer at Cognilytica....
Aug 26, 2020•28 min•Season 3Ep. 158
AI can be an immense helping tool in augmenting human capabilities to tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges. However, as organizations and governments look to increasing use and adopt AI for a variety of different use cases it’s important to have discussions around the ethics of AI and make sure these systems are being used for good. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Interview with Branka Panic, Founder and Executive Director at AI for Peace at Cognilytica....
Aug 23, 2020•28 min•Season 3Ep. 157
For people who have been following our podcast, you know that data is a central part to AI. Many of our listeners and Cognilytica clients need help around the Data life cycle including Data Engineering, Data Preparation, Data Labeling & Annotation, Sourcing Data and Data Generation for AI. We’re running The Data For AI Conference Week, taking place September 14-18, 2020, to address all this. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Data for AI Conference Preview at Cognilytica....
Aug 19, 2020•21 min•Season 3Ep. 156
In this episode of the AI Today podcast we explore various ways that banks are adopting AI technologies. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: How AI Is Being Applied In Banking at Cognilytica....
Aug 12, 2020•20 min•Season 3Ep. 155
Recently, adoption of AI in financial trading has seen a significant uptick. Wealth managers are using AI to help serve more clients. Traders are using AI and augmented intelligence tools to gain slight market advantages. And many are starting to see some real value gains from using AI. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer dig deeper into how AI is impacting the stock market and trading floor. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: How AI is Being Applied to...
Aug 05, 2020•16 min•Season 3Ep. 154
2020 has been an interesting year to say the least. In the episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Wilson Pang, who is the CTO at Appen. He shares with us findings from Appen’s “2020 State of AI report” including where organization’s feel they are on their AI adoption journey, why an increasing number of enterprises are getting behind responsible AI as a component to business success, and how COVID-19 has impacted organization’s adoption of AI. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: The 2020 St...
Jul 29, 2020•17 min•Season 3Ep. 153
Many in the industry have varying views about AGI, and if or when it will ever be achieved. On this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Dr. Ben Goertzel, CEO & Founder of the SingularityNET Foundation. He shares he views on where industry and academic research right now in terms of realizing the goals of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), what are some of the barriers right now to AGI research and adoption, and more. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Is Artificial General Intellige...
Jul 22, 2020•39 min•Season 3Ep. 152
The US Federal Government has made AI a priority and many agencies are pushing forward with their AI efforts. On this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Neil Chaudhry who is Director, AI Implementations at the AI Center of Excellence within the General Service Administration (GSA). He shares with us how adoption of new technologies such as AI can bring about unique challenges, why trustworthy and transparent AI is important to gain citizen trust in AI systems, and more. Continue readin...
Jul 15, 2020•17 min•Season 3Ep. 151
Intelligent, Autonomous robots have long been the dream of science fiction with shows and movies alike showing robots interacting and working with humans. However, despite this dream the current reality of robots is quite different. In this podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer share the current state of robotics, dig into why many robotics companies are going under, and a look to the future. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: What’s Happening with Robotics? at Cognilytica....
Jul 08, 2020•20 min•Season 3Ep. 150
At first glance, it may seem that digitization has nothing to do with AI. However, digitization is a necessary first step to extracting value from data that is locked in non-digital assets or human-based processes. In this podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss digitization, digitalization, and how this fits into the world of AI including sharing some surprising findings about where organizations and governments are today on their journey towards digitization. Continue reading AI...
Jul 01, 2020•34 min•Season 3Ep. 149
While the concepts behind machine translation are fairly easy to grasp, the process of actually doing fully automated language translation is extraordinarily complex. So, where does the industry stand with regards to machine translation? In this podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer dig deeper into this topic discussing the evolution of machine translation, exploring the current state of the art around machine translation, and why it’s such a hard problem to solve. Continue reading AI T...
Jun 24, 2020•21 min•Season 3Ep. 148
If you’ve been following our podcast and research, it should come as no surprise that the US Federal Government is making AI a priority. On this episode of the AI Today podcast we have Krista Kinnard who is Director, Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence at Technology Transformation Services (TTS) at the General Services Administration (GSA). Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Center of Excellence in the US Federal Government – Interview with Krista Kinnard, GSA at Cognilytica....
Jun 17, 2020•19 min•Season 3Ep. 147
AutoML tools are becoming more widely adopted and changing the way companies use AI. In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Jorge Torres, Founder and CEO at MindsDB. He shares with us how AutoML is helping accelerate machine learning model development, the trend that Developers are becoming the new Data Scientists, some of the challenges companies face adopting AutoML tools and more. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Insights into AutoML – Interview with Jorge Torres, Founder and ...
Jun 10, 2020•19 min•Season 3Ep. 146
AI continues to be used to enhance the human experience through art, music, language and other aspects. Researchers at the University of Adelaide in Australia recently created the MURMUR project, the world’s FIRST AI Art Exhibit Space. In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Anton van den Hengel, a professor at the University and a creator of the MURMUR project to discuss how this project came about, additional research projects, why AI is so hot in Australia right now. Continue rea...
Jun 03, 2020•34 min•Season 3Ep. 145
As people, companies, and governments are being asked to do more with less people, automation is playing an increasingly role is handling tasks and helping keep things on schedule. In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Chris Townsend who is Area Vice President, Federal at UiPath. He shares with us how automation and RPA is helping deal with significant shifts in the way that the world works, interactions with companies and governments, and changes in global supply chains. Continue...
May 27, 2020•22 min•Season 3Ep. 144
LinkedIn has been at the cutting edge of AI for many years and uses AI in many ways users may not be aware. In this episode of the AI Today podcast we interview Igor Perisic, Chief Data Officer (CDO) and VP of Engineering at LinkedIn. He shares with us how LinkedIn is applying AI and how it’s enhancing the user experience, how data regulations such as GDPR and California’s Consumer Privacy Act impact data used for your AI-enabled systems, and more. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI at Linked...
May 20, 2020•23 min•Season 3Ep. 143
It’s no surprise that AI will have an impact on the workforce from chatbots, recognition systems, or predictive analytics tools. But what happens when workplaces require employees to use tools that collect data on them such as facial recognition technology? In this podcast we interview Valerio De Stefano, Professor of Labour Law at KU Leuven to discuss how AI will broadly impact the workforce. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI Changing the Workforce, Interview with Valerio De Stefano at Cogn...
May 13, 2020•20 min•Season 3Ep. 142
Humans have long dreamed of machines that could function and perform just like other humans. However, giving machines emotional IQ has been an incredibly hard problem to solve. Aniket Bera and his team of researchers had the idea to create AI systems that can detect emotion based on gait. The applications for this type of robot can be seen in many industries including healthcare, law enforcement, and others especially in the time of social distancing. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Detecting...
May 06, 2020•14 min•Season 3Ep. 141
The US Federal Government has made AI a priority. In this podcast we interview Suzette Kent who is the US Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) to discuss how the US government will adopt AI across agencies, how they will address the need to reskill and upskill the workforce, and what the US needs to do to remain a leader in AI. Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI in the US Federal Government – Interview with Suzette Kent, US Federal CIO at Cognilytica....
Apr 29, 2020•21 min•Season 3Ep. 140
A few years ago the US Air Force created AFWERX to find new efficiencies in policy and processes and improve Air Force culture. To date there have been some interesting outcomes and technologies that have come through the AFWERX program. In this podcast we interview Mark Roland, Innovation Actualizer at AFWERX Vegas to share his insights on this program, how it’s helping the Air Force, and more. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #139: AI & Entrepreneurship in the US Air Force: Interview with Mar...
Apr 22, 2020•25 min•Season 3Ep. 139
The US Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has been very forward thinking in their adoption of transformative technologies including AI and block chain. In this podcast we interview Oki Mek, Senior Advisor to HHS CIO at HHS. He shares with us various ways HHS is adopting and implementing AI, how adoption of new technologies in the public sectors differs from the private sector, and explains the HHS Reimagine project. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #138: Interview with Oki Mek, Special...
Apr 15, 2020•26 min•Season 3Ep. 138
While much of the attention up until now has been focused on the development of machine learning models, as the industry moves from innovators and early adopters to the early majority, new customers will be more concerned about consuming third party models and building on top of existing best practices rather than building their own from scratch. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #137: ML Ops in Practice: Interview with Seth Clark, Modzy at Cognilytica....
Apr 08, 2020•16 min•Season 3Ep. 137
Machine Learning Model Operationalization Management, referred to as “MLOps”, is focused on the lifecycle of model development and usage, machine learning model operationalization, and deployment. Cognilytica recently published a report on this topic that examines the ML Operationalization Management market, provides visibility into emerging best practices in the MLOps space, identifies open source and commercial vendor solutions, and provides a forecast for the growth of the overall market for ...
Apr 01, 2020•21 min•Season 3Ep. 135
COVID-19 is quickly changing the way people work, live, and interact with others. Social distancing is now becoming the norm and many workers who once went into an office are now working remotely. How can AI help us in a time of global crisis? In the special episode hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer spend time discussing how AI can help detect COVID-19, fight COVID-19, help remote workers, and help predict the global economic impact this virus is having. Continue reading AI Today Podcast #1...
Mar 26, 2020•31 min•Season 3Ep. 135
